Court hears Marist brother was sexually assaulted

The ACT Supreme Court has heard a former brother at Canberra's Marist College, who's pleaded guilty to molesting young boys, was sexually assaulted himself as a child.

John William Chute, whose religious name is Brother Kostka, has pleaded guilty to 19 counts of acts of indecency on young teenage boys at Marist College between 1985 and 1989.

Chute was a religious teacher at the school.

The court heard Chute moved to Mittagong at the age of 11 and became a member of the Marist order.

It was at this time when he began to be sexually assaulted by another man within the religious order.

It lasted for two years.

A psychiatrist told the court, Chute suffers from a pyscho-sexual disorder which is compulsive sexual behaviour.

He undertook a six month residential rehabilitation program in 2002 in New South Wales.

The 75-year-old is due back in court on June 5, to be sentenced.